Posted on Feb 12, 2020
Should you have prior elective office experience before running for President of the United States?
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This comes up every Presidential election cycle. One candidate accuses another of not having enough experience to be President. My own opinion is the office is fully designed for someone to be elected to it with no prior elective office. The staff and budget of the White House is huge and there are plenty of really experienced people there advising the POTUS making previous experience moot for me. However, I would not vote for someone with an Anger Management issues, nor would I vote for someone with a my way or highway approach to running the Oval Office. So those attributes would still be important to me. Curious what others think on this though as the issue keeps comming up over and over again.
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It's a damned good question. I didn't support President Trump's bid for the GOP nomination in 2016 for these very reasons and was forced to vote for him in the general election only because the alternative, Hillary, was a proven failure as a leader at every level and a suspected criminal. (Those suspicions have only grown stronger and I am left to wonder why she has not yet been indicted.) Still, that leaves us with the bull in the china shop and the mess he will leave us to clean up. Still, to be fair, the place was a mess before he arrived. An even better metaphor might be that President Trump is the wrecking ball in a much needed demolition that's needed. We have to clear away the debris before we can rebuild a more perfect union. I only hope and pray that we dust off the Constitution and follow its original plan.
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Experience is a double edged sword. For example, our guy Joe has been in Government since 1972. You would think he would have an extensive resume of accomplishment. Yet... not so much. If anything, his resume has been an albatross around his neck.
Then there is the polar opposite embodied in Trump. He has lots of experience as an executive, and it shows. He also didn't know didley about how government works... and that also shows.
Then there is the polar opposite embodied in Trump. He has lots of experience as an executive, and it shows. He also didn't know didley about how government works... and that also shows.
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